Beatle Fans - Test Your Memory!

Roger Rettig · Post by **Roger Rettig** » 14 Aug 2006 11:10 pm

I don't know about the Little Rascals' dog - but I did think I could recall a patch on the eye of the dog on the sleeve; maybe it was the ring b0b talks about.

RR
PS: I'm in no position to cheat and check this out - here in Medora, ND, we don't have a grocery store, never mind a record shop!!!!

RR

Mark Lind-Hanson · Post by **Mark Lind-Hanson** » 15 Aug 2006 7:32 am

Indeed, there IS a dog, I think he's down there with the Shirley Temple doll and the flowers.
And he DOES look a little like the RCA mutt.

Mike Shefrin · Post by **Mike Shefrin** » 15 Aug 2006 8:08 am

I don't see it.

Roger Rettig · Post by **Roger Rettig** » 15 Aug 2006 9:04 am

Maybe it's too small to see on a CD -

You might need the 12" variety....

RR

Lee Baucum · Post by **Lee Baucum** » 15 Aug 2006 9:09 am

Here is a fun site.

If you've ever wondered who all those people are, then look at this.

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 15 Aug 2006 9:35 am

Okay, here's what I think. I think that there WAS a dog, but it's been removed.

Mike Shefrin · Post by **Mike Shefrin** » 15 Aug 2006 10:26 am

That's what I was thinking.I think there was an RCA "His master's voice" dog, but maybe it's not on all of the album covers?

Roger Rettig · Post by **Roger Rettig** » 15 Aug 2006 10:34 am

Is it possible that RCA demanded its removal?

RR

Roger Rettig · Post by **Roger Rettig** » 15 Aug 2006 10:36 am

Wow - Larry Bell's on there!!!!!

RR

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 15 Aug 2006 10:43 am

I have seen a copy with the dog,
but most later versions no dog.

And even combining Petey and Nipper
wasn't enough for RCA to let their logo
be used on another lable.

Mark Lind-Hanson · Post by **Mark Lind-Hanson** » 15 Aug 2006 10:56 am

Well, that IS a posibility, that there WAS one & they took it out somewhere along the line due to "copyright infringement" or whatever. I don't think they'd have made quite the same effort over the rights to its likeness as they did over all the stars & celebs, though> but ja, I DO remember a dog!

Roger Rettig · Post by **Roger Rettig** » 15 Aug 2006 1:00 pm

Well, there was certainly a dog on there at some point. Someone misguidedly bought me this album for a Christmas or Birthday present, and I remember the dog as well as the picture of Marlon...

I gave it away shortly afterwards, 'though I've come to quite like the record in the intervening years. Does anyone agree that it sounds a bit 'tinny'? I heard the CD recently and that's what struck me. 'Abbey Road' sounds much warmer....

Back to the 'disappearing dog'!

RR

Ron Whitfield · Post by **Ron Whitfield** » 15 Aug 2006 1:13 pm

Muttley at least used to be in the lower left hand corner, but he died.

Petr Vitous · Post by **Petr Vitous** » 15 Aug 2006 1:23 pm

Here is the dog.

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 15 Aug 2006 1:28 pm

It may just be the only thing that we can all remember seeing in 1967.

Marc Friedland · Post by **Marc Friedland** » 15 Aug 2006 3:40 pm

Bobby,
We just looked carefully at my wife's album cover, which is from 1967, and we don't see any dog on it. Obviously, as already stated, the dog must not have appeared on all copies.
The record itself looks to be in very good condition, but the cover is showing it's age.
-- Marc

Mike Shefrin · Post by **Mike Shefrin** » 15 Aug 2006 4:34 pm

No dog here either.

Earnest Bovine · Post by **Earnest Bovine** » 15 Aug 2006 7:40 pm

Well, I'll be a dyslexic atheist!

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 16 Aug 2006 1:00 am

Funny, this Zappa album was given to me by my father.
He expected Frank's more real jazz stuff,
like Peaches and Regallia,
but this was the avante bizare Mothers stuff, so I got it.

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 16 Aug 2006 11:53 am

Marc, did she remember a dog before she dug out her old LP?

Chip Fossa · Post by **Chip Fossa** » 16 Aug 2006 1:53 pm

I've looked at my SPLHCB album, too, and found no dog.

Post by **Dave Mudgett** » 16 Aug 2006 2:43 pm

Maybe the RCA dog was printed in disappearing ink.

Seriously, the cover on my old copy doesn't have it either, but it sure seems like I remember it being there. Maybe it's one of those hidden perceptual things? I dunno, I can't explain it.

I also checked out Goldmine Record Album Guide - they say nothing about with/without dog. I think if there were differences, the serious record collectors would be all over it.<font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by Dave Mudgett on 16 August 2006 at 03:44 PM.]</p></FONT>

Mark Lind-Hanson · Post by **Mark Lind-Hanson** » 16 Aug 2006 3:37 pm

Maybe we all HALLUCINATED the dog.

Marc Friedland · Post by **Marc Friedland** » 16 Aug 2006 4:12 pm

Bobby,
My wife Lorilee, did not remember ever seeing or thinking there was a dog on the cover, but admits with the power of suggestion, it's pretty easy to imagine a dog being there. Not that she knows all trivia related info about them, but she was a pretty big fan, seeing them perform live, following their careers, etc. We still have all the orginal Beatles records from the 60's. If she had to bet on it, she would have said there was no dog on the cover.
Marc

Steinar Gregertsen · Post by **Steinar Gregertsen** » 16 Aug 2006 4:44 pm

Here's Wikipedias full list:

Top row:

* Sri Yukteswar Giri (guru)
* Aleister Crowley
* Mae West (actress)
* Lenny Bruce (comedian)
* Karlheinz Stockhausen (composer)
* W. C. Fields (comedian/actor)
* Carl Gustav Jung (psychologist)
* Edgar Allan Poe (writer)
* Fred Astaire (actor/dancer)
* Richard Merkin (artist)
* The Vargas Girl (by artist Alberto Vargas)
* Leo Gorcey (actor) (removed)
* Huntz Hall (actor)
* Simon Rodia (designer and builder of the Watts Towers)
* Bob Dylan (singer/songwriter)

Second row:

* Aubrey Beardsley (illustrator)
* Sir Robert Peel (British Prime Minister)
* Aldous Huxley (writer)
* Dylan Thomas (poet)
* Terry Southern (writer)
* Dion (singer)
* Tony Curtis (actor)
* Wallace Berman (artist)
* Tommy Handley (comic)
* Marilyn Monroe (actress)
* William S. Burroughs (writer)
* Sri Mahavatar Babaji (guru)
* Stan Laurel (comedian/actor)
* Richard Lindner (artist)
* Oliver Hardy (comedian/actor)
* Karl Marx (political philosopher)
* H.G. Wells (writer)
* Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (guru)
* Sigmund Freud (psychologist) - barely visible below Bob Dylan
* Anonymous (wax hairdresser's dummy)

Third row:

* Stuart Sutcliffe (artist/former Beatle)
* Anonymous (wax hairdresser's dummy)
* Max Miller (comedian)
* The Petty Girl (by Artist George Petty)
* Marlon Brando (actor)
* Tom Mix (actor)
* Oscar Wilde (writer)
* Tyrone Power (actor)
* Larry Bell (artist)
* Dr. David Livingstone (missionary/explorer)
* Johnny Weissmuller (swimmer/actor)
* Stephen Crane (writer) - barely visible between the hand above Paul McCartney's head, and the next head to the right
* Issy Bonn (comedian) - his hand is above McCartney's head
* George Bernard Shaw (playwright)
* H.C. Westermann (sculptor)
* Albert Stubbins (soccer Player)
* Sri Lahiri Mahasaya (guru)
* Lewis Carroll (writer)
* T.E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia")

Front row:

* Sonny Liston (boxer)
* The Petty Girl (by George Petty)
* Wax model - George Harrison
* Wax model- John Lennon
* Shirley Temple (actress and diplomat)
* Wax model - Ringo Starr
* Wax model - Paul McCartney
* Albert Einstein (scientist)
* John Lennon
* Ringo Starr
* Paul McCartney
* George Harrison
* Bobby Breen (singer)
* Marlene Dietrich (actress/singer)
* Gandhi (Indian Leader) (removed)
* Tin Tan (Mexican Actor) (Changed )
* Legionnaire from the Order of the Buffalos
* Diana Dors (actress)

Other objects within the group include:

* Cloth grandmother-figure by Jann Haworth
* Cloth Figure of Shirley Temple by Jann Haworth
* A Mexican candlestick
* A television set
* A stone figure of a girl
* Another stone figure
* A statue brought over from John Lennon's house
* A trophy
* A doll of the Indian goddess Lakshmi
* A drum skin, designed by fairground artist Joe Ephgrave
* A hookah, or water tobacco pipe
* A velvet snake
* Fukusuke, Japanese china figure
* A stone figure of Snow White
* A garden gnome
* A tuba

People who were originally intended for the front cover but were ultimately excluded:

* Jesus Christ (Removed because the LP would be released a few months after John Lennon's Jesus statement)
* Mahatma Gandhi (Removed because EMI felt that his presence would offend the Indian market)
* Leo Gorcey (Removed because he requested a fee)
* Adolf Hitler
* Elvis Presley (singer)
* Germán Valdés "Tin Tan" (Removed because he requested Ringo change him for a Mexican Tree)

Steinar (not featured on the cover...)

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